[rochester-pm-list] Crazy question - spellchecker
Brian Mathis
bmathis at directedge.com
Fri Dec 3 13:59:45 CST 1999
You might want to check out ispell. You might be able to pipe stuff
through it and get some results back. There's 2 versions, GNU and
non-GNU, although they are both free. They each work a little different.
http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/ficus-members/geoff/ispell.html
http://mohawk.cat.rpi.edu/~tibbetts/ispell_toc.html
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Brian Mathis
Direct Edge
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> I want to be able to note words that aren't in a regular dictionary in
> user-submitted text. Is there a Perl resource out there to check spelling?
> (I looked at CPAN but didn't see anything...)
>
> All I want to do is highlight words that aren't recognized. I could seach
> repetitively through a text file containing all known good words, but that's
> slow and redundant. Is there a better solution I'm not thinking of because
> I'm in a hurry?
>
> Justin C. Sherrill
> Rochester Road Runner Webmaster
> http://www.rochester.rr.com/
> "Think slow, type fats"
>
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